With Thursday’s announcement of Mac OS X Mountain Lion comes the news that iChat is being upgraded and renamed to Messages, with support for the iMessage chat system introduced with iOS 5.

With Mountain Lion, Apple brings iOS and OS X a big step closer In addition to bringing many iOS features to the Mac, the latest version of OS X-Mountain Lion-further unifies the user experience. Download Messages Beta and get a taste of what's coming in OS X Mountain Lion. When you install Messages, it replaces iChat. But iChat services will continue to work.

Apple just released Messages Beta, an instant messaging platform to replace the iChat in the upcoming OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Messages is basically like iMessages for the Mac. Messages allows users to send unlimited iMessages to any Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

According to Apple Messages Beta download page, Messages will have the following features:

• Send unlimited iMessages to any Mac, iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.*
• Start an iMessage conversation on your Mac and continue it on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.
• Send photos, videos, attachments, contacts, locations, and more.
• Launch a FaceTime video call and bring the conversation face-to-face.
• Messages supports iMessage, AIM, Yahoo!, Google Talk, and Jabber accounts.

If you want to download and install Messages in Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 to taste what’s coming in OS X Mountain Lion, follow the step-by-step below:

1. Download the Messages Beta here.

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2. Double-click the downloaded MessagesBeta.dmg file and follow the onscreen installation.

3. Run the Messages by clicking its icon in the Dock.

4. A welcome message window appears. It tells you what the Messages is and what you can do with it. Click Continue to the next step.

5. The next step is iMessage Setup. Sign in with your Apple ID to activate iMessage then click Sign in.

6. Verify your email address, you can be reached for messages at the configured email above. Then click Continue.

7. You are done. Messages is ready for you to use. Click Done to begin using Messages.

Download Imessage For Mac Mountain Lion Download

Messages is a great tool to communicate with your friends, co-workers, families and others who own iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch via iMessages. It also supports Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, AIM and Jabber so you can reach mostly your IM friends using Messages.

Unfortunately, the Messages tool will not be available for Mac OS X 10.7.x when it ends the beta version. It means that the Messages is only available for the upcoming OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion which will be released this summer.

Apple announced OS X Mountain Lion and some of its new features. Among these features is a new Messages app that is much like Messages on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

The public beta version of the Messages app can be downloaded now and can be run exclusively on Mac OS X Lion.

Apple announced the coming release of OS X Mountain Lion, with new features that integrates it more fully with iOS and iCloud.

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On the iPhone, Messages integrates an SMS texting with an online chat client. It let’s you send texts via your phones SMS or messages to other iPhones and iPod.

On Mac OS X Mountain Lion and on OS X Lion, the Messages app allows you to send messages to iPads, iPhones, iPod Touches, and other Macs. The app also connects to popular instant messaging services as Aim, Jabber, Google Talk, and Yahoo Messenger.

Messages App Features

These are the features outlined on the Messages Beta download page:

• Send unlimited iMessages to any Mac, iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.*
• Start an iMessage conversation on your Mac and continue it on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.
• Send photos, videos, attachments, contacts, locations, and more.
• Launch a FaceTime video call and bring the conversation face-to-face.
• Messages supports iMessage, AIM, Yahoo!, Google Talk, and Jabber accounts.

Available Now in Public Beta for OS X Lion

Messages for OS X Mountain Lion is available for Mac OS X Lion in beta version as a free download. Macrumor reports that after the beta version expires, Lion users would have to purchase OS X Mountain Lion or the Messages app to keep using Messages.

Also note that when you install Messages Beta, it will replace iChat on your Mac. I would assume that when that happens, OS X Lion users who want to go back to iChat should be able to do so.

Here’s how to download Messages Beta for Mac OS X Lion.

How To Get Imessages On Mac

Download Messages Beta

1. Click the link here to go to the Apple website page on OS X Mountain Lion features: Go to Messages download page;
2. Click the Download Messages Beta button. Or click here for direct download of Messages.

Step 2 will download the installer. Double click the installer (file name: MessagesBeta.dmg) to see MessageBeta.pkg. Double click that to start installer and follow the onscreen instructions.

That’s all for now. Enjoy.

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